And from a simple statement in that paper: "It is clear from these results that higher bandwidth networks are required"
Did an entire industry spring.. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Samuel Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Computer on a stick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/02/12 02:36, Hearns, John wrote: > What was the spec of the original Beowulf project nodes? Their paper says: http://egscbeowulf.er.usgs.gov/geninfo/Beowulf-ICPP95.pdf # The Beowulf prototype employs 100 MHz Intel DX4 microprocessors # and a 500 MByte disk drive per processor. [...] # The DX4 delivers greater computational power than other members # of the 486 family not only from its higher clock speed, but also # from its 16 KByte primary cache (twice the size of other 486 # primary caches) 6]. Each motherboard also contains a 256 KByte # secondary cache. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
